Meenbog

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Meenbog, from 71,047 m² (7.1 ha, 17.56 acres) to 737,710 m² (73.77 ha, 182.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Meenbog in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 12 Apr 2017Refused

  A 10 YEAR PLANNING PERMISSION FOR DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF (1) A 110KV ELECTRICITY SUBSTATION WHICH INCLUDES 2 NO. CONTROL BUILDINGS, ASSOCIATED ELECTRICAL PLANT AND EQUIPMENT, UNDERGROUND ELECTRICITY CABLING, FENCING AND ANCILLARY WORKS IN THE TOWNLAND OF CARK TO REPLACE TWO SUBSTATIONS PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED AS PART OF THE DRUMNAHOUGH WIND FARM (PL.REF.08/50687 AND EXTENDED UNDER PL. REF.13/51609) AND THE LENALEA WIND FARM (PL.REF.09/50116); (2) 33KV UNDERGROUND ELECTRICITY CABLING AND ANCILLARY WORKS FROM THE PERMITTED LENALEA WIND FARM TO THE PROPOSED SUBSTATION IN THE TOWNLAND OF CARK; (3) 110KV UNDERGROUND ELECTRICITY CABLING AND ANCILLARY WORKS FROM THE PROPOSED SUBSTATION AT CARK THROUGH THE TOWNLANDS OF CULLIAGH, MEENBOG (ED CLOGHAN), LETTERSHANBO, CORLACKY, KINNADERRY, WELCHTOWN, AGHAVEAGH, MEENAGRAUV, ALTNAPASTE, BALLYKERGAN, CARRICKMAHON, MAGHERACLOIGH, LOUGHSALLAGH, CASHELNAVEAN, CROAGHONAGH, TAWNAWULLY MOUNTAINS, KEADEW UPPER, FRIARBUSH, ARDINAWARK, KEADEW LOWER, TO THE EXISTING CLOGHER SUBSTATION IN THE TOWNLAND OF CULLIONBOY, CO. DONEGAL; (4) THE DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING SHED AND ITS REPLACEMENT WITH A NEW SHED, BOTH IN THE TOWNLAND OF CULLIONBOY, RELOCATED TO FACILITATE THE PROPOSED UNDERGROUND CABLING WORKS. THE PLANNING APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT (EIS) AND NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS)

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750543

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Finn SAC 002301
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Tullytresna Bog 001870

Recorded monuments

• DG068-002 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

  This monument is not shown on any edition of the OS 6-inch map. It is on a great expanse of bog-grown hill-land c. 4km N of the River Finn and c. 1 1km NW of Ballybofey. It stands on a level patch on sloping ground and commands an extensive outlook to the S across the Finn valley. The Blue Stack mountains form the skyline to the SW, and rising ground restricts the outlook to the N. Bog growth in the vicinity, as revealed in a cutting 4m SE of the monument, is c. 1m high. The structural remains consist of a court at the SSE leading to a ruined gallery. The structure stands in a cairn distinguished in part by its stony surface but in the main by a growth of bright green grass that contrasts with the darker, somewhat coarse grass on the surrounding bog. A line of rushes also helps to define the long sides of the cairn, which at its centre rises no more than 0.5m above the level of the bog. There is no trace of the cairn beyond the modern field bank that crosses the N end of the site. Immediately S of this field bank is a ditch (not on plan), its sides largely collapsed. The cairn is more or less trapezoidal in plan. It measures 20m N-S and narrows from 15.5m wide close to its southern end to 11m at the N. The courtstones are incorporated in a low grass-grown spread of stones that seems to be the remains of a small rectangular feature (pecked on plan), perhaps the base of a hut of relatively modern date. The two entrance jambs at the front of the gallery lie on the court perimeter. A single courtstone survives outside the western jamb, and there are two beside the eastern. Approximately 3.5m S of the outer one of these is an upright stone that may be another courtstone, but, as it is close to the apparent entrance to the hut-like feature, it may have been placed here as a door jamb of that structure. The entrance jambs to the gallery are 0.5m apart. The western one is 0.3m high, and the eastern one is 0.6m high. The courtstone adjoining the western jamb is 0.9m in exposed height and rises 0.4m above it. The courtstone beside the eastern jamb is 1.4m high and rises 0.8m above it. The next courtstone is 0.7m high. The possible courtstone to the S of this is 0.6m high. All but the front of the gallery is considerably concealed by cairn material. It is at least 6.5m long, is 1.5m wide at the front and seems to have narrowed toward the rear. The sides of the front chamber, which is c. 2m long, are represented by single stones. That at the E leans inward, and its outer face is largely hidden. It rises 0.3m clear of the surface of the cairn. The orthostat at the W is 0.2m high. A pair of longitudinally set jambs, 0.6m apart, form the segmentation between the front chamber and the rest of the gallery. That at the E is 0.35m high, and that at the W is 0.4m high. Three orthostats (hatched on plan) indicate the continuation of the gallery. The first of these, a sidestone, is next to the eastern segmenting jamb. It is exposed to a depth of 0.6m. Beside this to the N, part of the face of an otherwise concealed stone, at least 0.3m long, is exposed in a hole in the cairn. Its status is uncertain. The second orthostat, also a sidestone, is 2.4m N of the western segmenting jamb, and its northern end overlaps the third orthostat, which is set inside it. Both are exposed in a hole in the cairn measuring 2.8m long and 0.8m wide. The second is exposed to a depth of 0.9m, and the third rises 0.3m above it. At the southern end of the hole in which these stones are exposed, what appears to be a transversely set stone is visible at a depth of 0.4m below the top of the cairn. Its status is unclear. Approximately 1.4m N of the two orthostats on this side is a small stone, and 0.3m further N is the outer end of another, transversely set one. Both appear to be firmly set, but further investigation would be required to establish their status. The southern one rises 0.3m clear of the cairn. The northern one is the same height as the last. The design of the gallery beyond the front chamber is unclear. There seems to have been at least two further chambers here, and the possibility that there were four chambers in all cannot be ruled out. Mac Meanman 1985 (dolmen near 'Doonan Old House' seems to refer); SMR 1987, 68:2; Ó Nualláin 1989, 117; Verling 1990, 126; RMP 1995, 68:2. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). Date of upload: 22 September 2008 See linked document with details from Eamon Cody, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI. County Donegal. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002)

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Meenbog.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Meenbog.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Meenbog with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Meenbog · An Mhín Bhog

Area

1,927,864 m² (192.79 ha, 476.39 acres)

Civil parish

Kilteevoge, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Cloghan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cloghan electoral division: 935 people in 318 households; 86% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Brockagh, Culliagh, Lettershanbo, Meenahorna, Meenanamph, Mooneennahasragh, Tullytrasna

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Meenbog on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.